Fever Pitch
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What does it mean to love a football club so fiercely that it shapes every aspect of your life? Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's landmark memoir-cum-cultural-confession, chronicling his lifelong obsession with Arsenal Football Club from his first match as an eleven-year-old boy in 1968 through to the legendary, heart-stopping final moments of the 1988–89 First Division season. Written with razor-sharp wit and disarming honesty, the book maps the rhythms of Hornby's personal life — adolescence, heartbreak, friendships, and identity — entirely through the lens of football, arguing convincingly that for millions of fans, the sport is not a pastime but a defining emotional language. Hornby's prose is deceptively conversational yet structurally masterful, using each chapter as a match-day entry that doubles as a meditation on masculinity, obsession, and the strange, irrational loyalties that bind us. Published to widespread critical acclaim, Fever Pitch is widely credited with legitimising football as a subject for serious literary and cultural analysis, helping to transform the genre of sports writing forever. It is a book that will resonate far beyond the terraces — because whether or not you have ever set foot in a stadium, Hornby's portrait of devotion in its most unreasonable, beautiful form will leave you questioning what you, too, are truly obsessed with.
Author: Nick Hornby
Format: Paperback
Published: 2010, Penguin Books
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to love a football club so fiercely that it shapes every aspect of your life? Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's landmark memoir-cum-cultural-confession, chronicling his lifelong obsession with Arsenal Football Club from his first match as an eleven-year-old boy in 1968 through to the legendary, heart-stopping final moments of the 1988–89 First Division season. Written with razor-sharp wit and disarming honesty, the book maps the rhythms of Hornby's personal life — adolescence, heartbreak, friendships, and identity — entirely through the lens of football, arguing convincingly that for millions of fans, the sport is not a pastime but a defining emotional language. Hornby's prose is deceptively conversational yet structurally masterful, using each chapter as a match-day entry that doubles as a meditation on masculinity, obsession, and the strange, irrational loyalties that bind us. Published to widespread critical acclaim, Fever Pitch is widely credited with legitimising football as a subject for serious literary and cultural analysis, helping to transform the genre of sports writing forever. It is a book that will resonate far beyond the terraces — because whether or not you have ever set foot in a stadium, Hornby's portrait of devotion in its most unreasonable, beautiful form will leave you questioning what you, too, are truly obsessed with.